Fishhook
- Museum number:
- 2-56537
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020056537
- Alternate number:
- 47 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2862
- Description:
- Fishhook (model); wood shank and hook, moose hide leader (?) attached to shank with heavy thread; length shank 12.5 cm. To catch large fish thru ice hole on a line in winter. This specimen ordered for the Museum- usually made of bone and, or, metal.
- Donor:
- Lucy W. Turner and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
- Culture or time period:
- Cree
- Collector:
- Lucy W. Turner
- Collection date:
- May 1972
- Taxon:
- Alces alces
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Fishhooks
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- February 20, 1974
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Comment:
- This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)
- Legacy documentation:
-